When fluctuating staffing is needed, nurses should be assigned to comparable clinical areas” (American Nurses Association, 2009). Plans that could make floating assignments more acceptable include using nurses who have expressed a preference to move to similar units or units in which they have demonstrated competence. Also, create several specialty floating pools where nurses are trained to work in these specialty units and nursing leaders can dive into this pool when no nurses agree to leave their home units. To help retain float nurses, some benefits should be offered such as potential on-call, but unscheduled duty, working on public holidays, and nurse recognition programs should be offered (Good & Bishop,